Himmler, Goering and Goebbels all hated each other, too...

In most European countries you are not even really allowed to record traffic around you (though it is somewhat accepted in reality).

Having your licence plate filmed and registered by other drivers is one thing - but having your face registered by just anyone?

On this day in 1898, Canadian Ronald MacDonald won the second Boston Marathon. He was the first of 15 Canadians to win the Men's Open Division of the Marathon from 1898 to 1977. From 1897 to 1917, Canadians won seven Boston Marathons.

amazing!

OMG! love it!

eugenics

I'm not impressed by the "I did this marathon on no training" folks.

To me, that sends an opposite signal:
1. You self-sabotaged so you had an out handy. You didn't risk seeing what you could do.
2. The prep is the meaningful part. You didn't have the discipline to do it.

much as I hate there are no private accounts this is really the only place where there's anything like signal.

Mutuals: given my many concerns with Bluesky's indifference to user safety, non-functional blocks, or options to opt in/out of lists, I will be periodically deactivating my account until they provide more user-friendly settings. So if I disappear for a while, that's why. Thanks for your patience.

A podcast where students try to describe the essay ChatGPT just wrote for them

Here's another idea. Just stop using Bluesky until they create a functional service with appropriate user settings, privacy features, and functional blocks. I'm not taking Bluesky seriously until they take users seriously. Enough is enough.

This is one of the many valid reasons why I've resisted using LLM for any of my labor: that normalizing it will lead to my professional demise. I've been contingent faculty (nontenured) my entire academic career & I'm keenly aware of how many personnel decisions are justified by "Because we could."

funny, I just realized I'd mis-labled a container that has Africa stone in it as hyraceum, which is the petrified excrement (itself). two related but different things. will have to re-do the label!

the Africa stone has an incredible aroma that's somewhere between fine sandalwood, spices, earth, and manure. it is very beautiful. the musk itself has been described by a wine chemist as smelling of mouse taint. I also have other rodent musks (beaver, muskrat) and its similar (pee-like, leathery)

I have a bunch of hyraceum musk in my lab and also the famed 'africa stone,' which is the rock deposited with the animal's pee and poop, which is used in perfumery. It's one of the few ethical animal musks because it doesn't harm the animal.

To frame these products which have had billions of dollars poured into their development, production, and upkeep as "tools" waiting for us to find a use for them is the height of anti-design.

I imagine it would be hard to write about wine without having any skin in the game. As running's 'philosopher king' George Sheehan put it, the 'spectator' "cannot experience what the athlete is experiencing" and is 'seldom a good loser' (Running and Being, p. 49). Ignorance is hardly a 'unique' take

As the gap between the influencer & those who actually know grows algorithmically wider by the day, you're going to need to actively seek out those with real world experience.

Trust me, it's worth it.

Fine hand tools in a hand tools woodworking studio. I had the opportunity to use (and later purchase) some of these same tools when I studied here.

AI is not a tool. Tools contribute to human skill, they don't remove it. Those who seek the status of practitioner should be required to demonstrate such claims in applied practice, witnessed by real human practitioners, in real proving grounds in the real world. #AssessmentMatters.

"Learning to learn" begins a lengthy passage from Tim Ingold's book on Making. He argues for the kind of directly acquired knowing over indirectly acquired information, which he characterizes as the "pretence of knowing." The end.

Throughout his work, Tim Ingold admonishes the intellectually lazy and regressive ordering of mind-over-matter notions of 'criticality' as above, and distinct from, more extra-social, ecologically situated, sensorial, tacit, and physically embodied ways of knowing.
www.routledge.com/Making-Anthr...

It’s a big misconception that natural essential oils are harmless or automatically safe - nope - many are used as biocides; many contain them (naturally, as part of their chemical composition). One of the most hazardous things you can pour down a drain is a bunch of lavender oil.

so cute! he's ready for his close up!

The cover of the book Running and Being by Dr George Sheehan (who as an MD and not a phd, tho more of a philosopher than many academics! A classic tome and a must have in every serious runner's library.

a photo (mine) of trail in the woods with roots like steps twisting up across the path through hardwood trees on either side curving upwards into the green leafy background.

"Creativity depends on action. Trust no thought arrived at sitting down."

- from running's philosopher king George Sheehan's 'Running & Being' (1978)

Bluesky will not be remotely user-friendly or safe until they provide the following basic default settings:

* Private accounts.
* Private blocks.
* A button to remove unwanted followers.
* Opt-out from list inclusion.

Do better @bsky.app @safety.bsky.app @support.bsky.team

Good grief. I keep forgetting that a lot of people don't have even basic knowledge of the onset of infections, the difference between cold and flu, etc etc. Unfortunately, there's not much we can do to find these things out if people aren't forthcoming. Sigh.

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that's so cool!

alas, as per latest IFRA update (p-Hydroxybenzyl)acetone is restricted to 1.0 % (category 4). thankfully, I'm using it for cat 12 which I may more generously dose it at 78%.

stunning!

MAMIL! [crying emoji here]